Mivchar HaPeninim [“Choicest of Pearls”]. Translated from the Arabic by Judah ibn Tibbon.

AUCTION 74 | Thursday, November 09th, 2017 at 1:00

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Lot 98

IBN GABIROL, SOLOMON.

Mivchar HaPeninim [“Choicest of Pearls”]. Translated from the Arabic by Judah ibn Tibbon.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Square and cursive Rabbinic type alternate in text. ff. 41 (of 60). Provided in facsimile: ff. 1, 5, 7-9, 13-15, 17, 23, 47-51, 53, 57-59. Upper corners of few leaves with loss affecting text, few marginal repairs, stained in places. Modern blind-tooled crushed morocco. Housed in custom slip-case. Sm. 4to.

Soncino:

Est: $4,000 - $6,000

PRICE REALIZED $5,000

First edition ethical work, a collection of maxims, proverbs and moral reflections. The second book - the first, according to bibliographer Gerson Cohen - printed by the Soncino Family, publishers of more Hebrew volumes than any other press. See D. Amram, The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy (1963) pp. 56-60. See Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library - Otzroth Ya’akov, Incunables no. 12.